5th - 1778 Captured by Native Americans, Daniel Boone arrives at Detroit as a prisoner. Detroit's British commandant, Lt. Colonel Henry Hamilton, tried unsuccessfully to ransom the already-famous frontiersman. After a short stay, Boone's captors took him to Ohio where he later escaped.

6th - 1971 Detroit Tigers have their largest oopening-day attendance.

7th - 1947 Henry Ford dies.

8th - 1931 The American robin becomes the official state bird.

9th - Palm Sunday1924 Watervliet is incorporated as a city.

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10th - 1915 Harry Morgan is born. He has appeared on over one hundred films including starring roles in the television series Dragnet and M*A*S*H.

19th - 1973 Residents of the small town of Williamsburg, located northeast of Traverse City, discovered hundreds of mysterious craters, many of which spewed water, mud and volatile gas in three-foot geysers. Scientists theorized that natural gas from a nearby well turned the town into a moonscape.

27th - 1933 Michigan law lowers the state's drinking age allowing 18 to 20 years old to drink beer and wine, but not hard liquor.

28th - 1955 The white pine becomes the official state tree.

29th - 1911 Michigan adopts a new state flag.

30th - 1921 Annie Edson Taylor Niagara Falls daredevil dies. She was the first person, and the first and only woman to survive a ride over that falls in a specially designed beer barrel on October 24, 1901.